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New Aliens Vs. Predator Game Doesn't Make It Past AU Ratings Board 277

Posted by Soulskill on Saturday December 05, 2009 @04:36AM from the gauntlet-thrown dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Australia refused to give Rebellion's new Aliens Vs. Predator game a rating, effectively banning it in the country. Rebellion says it won't be submitting an edited version for another round of classifications, however. (As Valve did with Left 4 Dead 2.) They said, 'We will not be releasing a sanitized or cut down version for territories where adults are not considered by their governments to be able to make their own entertainment choices.'"

Comment Re:Weakest Precondition Calculus (Score 1) 592

by racicop on Wednesday December 10, 2008 @12:48PM (#26061921) Attached to: Best Paradigm For a First Programming Course?

If you pay attention to the last few paragraphs in Dijkstra's "On the cruelty of really teaching computer science" he outlines an introductory programming course which starts with training the students in the algebraic manipulation of formulas. I think functional programming can really help you with this, and I haven't tried the logic paradigm yet so I can't tell if it's any better. It can also help students focus on correctness, and since some of them have probably tried some imperative language already, starting over with a functional language will level the whole class.

Economic Crisis Will Eliminate Open Source 753

Posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday October 22, 2008 @10:53AM from the why-so-gloomy dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The economic crisis will ultimately eliminate open source projects and the 'Web 2.0 free economy,' says Andrew Keen, author of The Cult of the Amateur. Along with the economic downturn and record job loss, he says, we will see the elimination of projects including Wikipedia, CNN's iReport, and much of the blogosphere. Instead of users offering their services 'for free,' he says, we're about to see a 'sharp cultural shift in our attitude toward the economic value of our labor' and a rise of online media businesses that reward their contributors with cash. Companies that will survive, he says, include Hulu, iTunes, and Mahalo. 'The hungry and cold unemployed masses aren't going to continue giving away their intellectual labor on the Internet in the speculative hope that they might get some "back end" revenue,' says Keen."

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